Monday, October 15, 2007

My response to 曾特首's comments on Friday

Our Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang was interviewed by RTHK on his policy address. The following questions and answers were about our constitutional reforms between the host of the show and our Chief Executive.

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Host :

I was struck by one phrase at the end of the policy address, towards the end of the conclusion, you say, we promote democratic development without compromising social stability or government efficiency, that kind of implies that democratic development does compromise social stability or government efficiency?

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Sir Donald Tsang :

It can, it can, if we go to the extreme, people go to the extreme, and you have a cultural revolution, for instance, in China. When people take everything into their hands, then you cannot govern the place.

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Host :

But Cultural Revolution wasn't really an extreme example of democracy.

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Sir Donald Tsang :

What is it? People taking power into their own hands! Now, this is what it means by democracy, if you take it to the full swing. In other democracies, even if you have an elected person, then you overturn the policy in California, for instance, you have initiative number, number, number what, then you overturn policy taken by the government, that's not necessarily conducive to efficient government.

Mr Tsang is a kind of street smart, I supposed. His expenditure on infrastructure and immigrant policy probably is good, but I think he has a double intention. The second intention being distracting people from democracy - when people eat well and live well, busy at making money, then nobody will strive for democracy. Read today's news? Our government PR Mr Lam said we have to abide to the Basic Law. People bring out the rules and regulation usually mean that please forget it - there will be no democracy. Democracy = Foreign force intervening our internal affairs, right?